Govt. panel for talks with Taliban Shura leaves for NWA

ISLAMABAD: For holding talks with the Taliban Shura, the government committee and the Taliban liaison committee have left for North Waziristan , Aaj News reported.

According to the sources, the government committee members along with the Taliban liaison committee chief Maulana Samiul Huque left here in a helicopter, while Maulana Yusuf Shah and other members of Taliban liaison committee left from Peshawar for North Waziristan.

Federal Secretary Habibullah Khattak is leading the government committee, while Taliban liaison committee led by Maulana Samiul Huqe.

The venue of the meeting has been kept secret. The government committee insisting holding talks at Scouts Headquarter.

It has to be mentioned here that the first direct meeting between the government and the Taliban Shura scheduled yesterday was postponed due to the bad weather conditions, because of which they could not found suitable weather for traveling in a helicopter to North Waziristan.